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B. SPIERLING.

KEY HOOK.

No. 448,381. Patented Mar. 17, 1891.

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ROBERT SPIERLING, OF HILDESHEIM, GERMANY.

KEY-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,381, dated Mapch 17, 1891. Application filed September 5, 1890. Serial No. 364.062. (No model.)

To (tZl whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT SPIERLING, a subject of the King of Prussia, residing at Hildesheim, Prussia, German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Key-Hooks, of which the following is a description.

This invention relates to key-hooks; and its object is to devise a key-hook which may be readily secured to any part of a garment, and which permits of the key being easily attached to and detached from the key-hook, while at the same time the key is prevented from accidentally falling off the hook.

My invention is described hereinafter, and the features for which Letters Patent are desired are set outin the claim at the end hereof.

In the annexed drawings, which form a part of this specification, and wherein like parts are indicated by like letters of reference in the several views, the key-hook is represented in different forms, each of which being adapted as a holder, for instance, of a door-key.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form of my invention secured to a garment and having its bow provided with an elastic head. Figs. 2 and 3 are similar views of the key-hook, the latter view showing the device secured to a garment and the devices of both views illustrating bows which are in themselves elastic. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of Fig. 3. Fig. 4: is a side elevation of another form of the key-hook secured to a garment, the bow being integral with the back plate and inherently elastic. Fig. 4 is a face view of the key-hook shown in Fig. 4, and Fig. 5 illustrates a mode in which the key-hook may be secured to the body of a person.

Referring to the drawings, B indicates the bow of my key-hook, the same being preferably formed integral with the back plate a. In the several forms of the device the bow B is bent toward the back plate a. In Fig. 1 the free end of the bow is provided with an elastic closing-head l), the same consisting of a short-headed tube co-operating with a spring seated within the hollow free end of the bow B. The head I) is normally adapted to bear against or come in close contact with a projection c at the top of the back plate a, as seen in the drawings. The back plate a is provided at its rear, in Figs. 1 and 4, with eyes d d, which are adapted to pass through the stuff of the garment and to receive a pin, as e, by which means the key-h0ok is held against displacement. Instead of the eyes d d and pin 6, there may be employed for securing the device in position a safetypin fastened to the rear surface of the back plate a, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 3. these views the entire key-holder is rnade of wire of the requisite gage, and the elasticity of the bow B is obtained by a coil in the wire, as shown at f, and the pin 6 is likewise made elastic by a second coil, as shown at g. This pin thus constructed keeps the holder in place on the garment by penetrating the stuff as well as by a clamping action.

In the form of device shown in Fig. 4 the bow B is integral with the back plate CL and it is bent toward said plate, so that its upper end normally rests near to or against the front surface of the back plate. The bow is inherently elastic and is sprung out when in serting the key. In this view, Fig. 4, the back plate Ct is provided with eyes'd d, which co-operate with a separate or detached pin, the same as in Fig; 1.

The manner in which the key is applied to the key-holder is obvious from the draw ings. In Fig. 1 the closing-head Z2 is pushed back by pressure of the key thereon, while in the other views the bow B is sprung back in a like manner to permitthe passage of the key.

This key-holder can be manufactured in an attractive and neat form and has the advantage of ready application to any desired part of a garment by a simple and eifective means.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire-to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The combination, with back plate a, having formed integral therewith a bow B, with a hollow free end which projects toward the In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT SPIERLIN G.

front of said back plate, and the rear surface I of the plate a provided with eyes (Z d, of a spring fitted within the hollow free end of bow B, a short-headed tube co-operating with said spring and also with the said back plate, and a detachable headed pin 6, co-operating with the eyes d d, substantially as set forth.

Witnesses:

J. MoRz EBERLY, W. KESSLER. 

